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Title: Down the Rhine
Young America in Germany

Author: Oliver Optic

Release Date: January 2, 2008 [EBook #24124]

Language: English

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I believe you are a little deaf in one eye, Raymond, or else you
can't hear in the other.

[Illustration: THE TRAVELLING JOURNEYMEN.--Page 217.]

[Illustration:

Young America Abroad

Down the Rhine

By Oliver Optic.

Boston
Lee & Shepard.]

DOWN THE RHINE;

OR,

YOUNG AMERICA IN GERMANY.

A Story of Travel and Adventure.

BY

OLIVER OPTIC.

BOSTON:
LEE AND SHEPARD.
1870.

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1869, by
WILLIAM T. ADAMS,
In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the
District of Massachusetts.

ELECTROTYPED AT THE
_Boston Stereotype Foundry_,
No. 19 Spring Lane.

TO MY YOUNG FRIEND
_RALPH OAKLEY_,
This Volume
IS AFFECTIONATELY DEDICATED.

YOUNG AMERICA ABROAD.

BY OLIVER OPTIC.

A Library of Travel and Adventure in Foreign Lands. First and Second
Series; six volumes in each Series. 16mo. Illustrated.

_First Series._

I. _OUTWARD BOUND_; OR, YOUNG AMERICA AFLOAT.

II. _SHAMROCK AND THISTLE_; OR, YOUNG AMERICA IN IRELAND AND SCOTLAND.

III. _RED CROSS_; OR, YOUNG AMERICA IN ENGLAND AND WALES.

IV. _DIKES AND DITCHES_; OR, YOUNG AMERICA IN HOLLAND AND BELGIUM.

V. _PALACE AND COTTAGE_; OR, YOUNG AMERICA IN FRANCE AND SWITZERLAND.

VI. _DOWN THE RHINE_; OR, YOUNG AMERICA IN GERMANY.

_Second Series._

I. _UP THE BALTIC_; OR, YOUNG AMERICA IN DENMARK AND SWEDEN.

II. _NORTHERN LANDS_; OR, YOUNG AMERICA IN PRUSSIA AND RUSSIA.

III. _VINE AND OLIVE_; OR, YOUNG AMERICA IN SPAIN AND PORTUGAL.

IV. _SUNNY SHORE